CODE OF THUG LIFE
  
"I didn't create T.H.U.G.  L.I.F.E., I diagnosed it." – Tupac Shakur.

   In 1992 at the 'Truce Picnic' in Cali, Tupac was instrumental in getting rival members of the Crips and Bloods to sign the Code Of THUG LIFE.

  He and Mutulu Shakur had helped write up the 'code' , with help from other 'og's'.

  The Code of THUG LIFE is listed here.It details do's and don'ts for being a righteous thug and banger.

  Code OF THUG LIFE:

 
1. All new Jacks to the game must know: a) He's going to get rich. b) He's going to jail. c) He's going to die.

2. Crew Leaders: You are responsible for legal/financial payment commitments to crew members; your word must be your bond.

  3. One crew's rat is every crew's rat. Rats are now like a disease; sooner or later we all get it; and they should too.

  4. Crew leader and posse should select a diplomat, and should work ways to settle disputes. In unity, there is strength!

  5. Car jacking in our Hood is against the Code.

  6. Slanging to children is against the Code.

  7. Having children slanging is against the Code.

  8. No slanging in schools.

  9. Since the rat Nicky Barnes opened his mouth; ratting has become accepted by some. We're not having it.
 
10. Snitches is outta here.

11. The Boys in Blue don't run nothing; we do. Control the Hood, and make it safe for squares.

12. No slanging to pregnant Sisters. That's baby killing; that's genocide!

  13. Know your target, who's the real enemy.

  14. Civilians are not a target and should be spared.

  15. Harm to children will not be forgiven.

  16. Attacking someone's home where their family is known to reside, must be altered or checked.

  17. Senseless brutality and rape must stop.

  18. Our old folks must not be abused.

  19. Respect our Sisters. Respect our Brothers.

  20. Sisters in the Life must be respected if they respect themselves.

  21. Military disputes concerning business areas within the community must be handled professionally and not on the block.

  22. No shooting at parties.

  23. Concerts and parties are neutral territories; no shooting!

  24. Know the Code; it's for everyone.

  25. Be a real ruff neck. Be down with the code of the Thug Life.

  26. Protect yourself at all times..

  Some other Interpretations:

  Thug Life means - The Hate U Gave Lil' Infants Fucks Everyone.

  NIGGA means - Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished.

  OUTLAW stands for 'Operating Under Thug Laws As Warriors'















written by Marcus Garvey:

MAN KNOW THYSELF

For man to know himself is for him to feel that for him there is no human master. For him Nature is his servant, and whatsoever he wills in Nature, that shall be his reward. If he wills to be a pigmy, a serf or a slave, that shall he be. If he wills to be a real man in possession of the things common to man, then he shall be his own sovereign. When man fails to grasp his authority he sinks to the level of the lower animals, and whatsoever the real man bids him do, even as if it were of the lower animals, that much shall he do. If he says "go." He goes. If he says "come," he comes. By this command he performs the functions of life even as by a similar command the mule, the horse, the cow perform the will of their masters. For the last four hundred years the Negro has been in the position of being commanded even as the lower animals are controlled. Our race has been without a will; without a purpose of its own, for all this length of time.

Because of that we have developed few men who are able to understand the strenuousness of the age in which we live. Where can we find in this race of ours real men. Men of character, men of purpose, men of confidence, men of faith, men who really know themselves? I have come across so many weaklings who profess to be leaders, and in the test I have found them but the slaves of a nobler class. They perform the will of their masters without question. To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord. As for the individual man, so of the individual race. This feeling makes man so courageous, so bold, as to make it impossible for his brother to intrude upon his rights.

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man - the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up; the man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself; the man who will not blame God, who will not blame Nature, who will not blame Fate for his condition; but the man who will go out and make conditions to suit himself. Oh, how disgusting life becomes when on every hand you hear people (who bear your image, who bear your resemblance) telling you that they cannot make it, that Fate is against them, that they cannot get a chance. If 400,000,000 Negroes can only get to know thesmelves, to know that in them is a sovereign power, is an authority that is absolute, then in the next twenty-four hours we would have a new race, we would have a nation, an empire, - resurrected, not from the will of others to see us rise, - but from our own determination to rise, irrespective of what the world thinks


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